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HSV ClubSport R8 SV-R designed to boost road safety

Holden Special Vehicles has developed four bright yellow high-performance HSV ClubSport R8 sedans to help boost the visible presence of Queensland Police this holiday season and make the roads safer. The HSV engineering team collaborated with the...

Queensland Government paid for car parks that didn’t exist

Don’t you hate it when you forget where your car park is? The Queensland Government’s Transport and Main Roads department has been renting 505 parking bays in Brisbane, although a September 2010 audit found that it only knew where 489 of them...

Denmac Ford enters receivership after Brisbane floods

One of Ford Australia’s best performing dealerships, Denmac Ford, has been forced into receivership as a result of low sales and financial hardship following January’s Brisbane floods. Denmac Ford Pty Ltd has three sites in southwest Brisbane:...

Anna Bligh’s government car’s wheels stolen

It seems the wheels have fallen off Queenland Premier Anna Bligh's transport department. Thieves have stolen all four wheels off Ms Bligh's limousine while it was parked outside her driver's house in Brisbane, Queensland. The incident was repo...

P-plate legislation fatally flawed

Most of Australia’s P-platers are prevented from driving some of the safest cars on the road because transport departments have fundamental misunderstandings of automotive technology. Even more disturbingly, perhaps, bureaucratic ineptitude means p...

Barnaby Joyce drowns his government Toyota LandCruiser

National Party Senate leader Barnaby Joyce drowned his government-purchased Toyota LandCruiser late last year, leaving the approximately-$80,000 vehicle a soggy write-off with damaged electrics. Mr Joyce explained he was driving to his farming pro...

Video: Queensland floods hit Toowoomba streets

Parts of Queensland are currently experiencing huge flood devastation, with city streets being turned into rivers in just a few hours. Late yesterday, the region of Toowoomba, north of Brisbane, endured a massive inundation of water which swept throu...

Queensland leads 10 percent national road toll reduction

The national road toll decreased by almost 10 percent in 2010, with the number of deaths in road crashes down from 1507 in 2009 to 1368 last year. Queensland led a list of four states to experience a reduction in its road toll, while the Norther...